35 years ago, I wrote this article about the Super Famicom AKA SNES. It had everything I could dig up about Nintendo's new 16-bit console and man, my excitement levels were off the charts. It just sounded incredible! And indeed was. I even mention its possible CD-ROM upgrade! 🤯

These guys are smashing it. So pleased to be working with such a talented team!

Our Steam Frame video will run later, but if you're looking for in-depth information right now, we have this article for you: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/ste...

We went hands-on with Valve's Steam Machine and Steam Frame. Two videos in the pipeline, kicking off right now with this detailed discussion on Valve's beautiful PC/console hybrid - and the new Steam Controller: youtu.be/2rv83LgXiN0

My new favourite piece of feedback

"It Should Have Been Ours" - Street Fighter 2 Was Supposed To Be A TurboGrafx-16 Exclusive, Claims Former TTI President.

Retail Therapy: Henshin, A Slice Of Japan On The British High Street.

Every chatbot startup: “I saw people were lonely so I made a widget.”

Some solid reporting by @alyssamerc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Great angle on the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco being brutalist and significant architecture:

This game absolutely *slaps* Review: Lumines Arise (PS5) - The Most Beautiful and Most Complete Lumines Game Ever www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/... (via @pushsquare.com)

Waiting til the sun goes down so I can Rotate Some Blocks with my full attention(!!!!)

This place is amazing www.timeextension.com/features/ret...

At Calke Abbey

Guide: Welcome To Armored Core - A Chronological Breakdown Of FromSoftware's Legendary Mecha Series.

Hard to believe we've been on this journey for 20 years now. What @antdickens.com started has turned into the world's most popular Nintendo fan site, and it's been an real honour to be part of that story

I'm utterly hooked on Absolum. I know it got a good critical response when it launched, but it feels like it has gotten lost in the crush a little, which is a shame - it's sooooo well put together! If you liked SoR4 and Roguelite gameplay, it's a must-have

One Man's "Life-Long Dream" Of Creating A Physical WipEout Race Track Is Complete.

Review: G'AIM'E - Coin-Op Time Crisis Comes Home With This AI-Powered Light Gun.

the tech industry is pretty funny, because a bunch of pretentious dudes invented software that generates sentences and now they think they’re demigods

Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I talk about OpenAI hinting they’d want a federal backstop for data center loans, NVIDIA’s weird, desperate post about China, and my deep suspicion about OpenAI’s leaked numbers. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Horrible, horrible, *horrible* company

This has been under wraps for a while, but we can *finally* reveal that @hookshot.media is powering @digitalfoundry.bsky.social's new site! @antdickens.com and the entire DF team have done an amazing job with this, and it's an honour to be working with such a talented bunch of people

I’m delighted to see my 8-page Simon The Sorcerer feature in the latest Retro Gamer. This article was a real labour of love; I interviewed someone involved in every single game, including both the new one and the cancelled 2014 release. If you’re a fan of the series, I think you’ll like it.

"It Was Unlike Any Other Game I'd Played" - Meet The Donkey Kong Prodigy Who Became Nintendo's Original "Gamesmaster".

Fuck's sake

"Hey boss, what should we call the Super Nintendo port of Smash TV?" "Just call it Super Smash TV, what else?" "Fair enough. What about the Mega Drive port?" "Are you stupid or somethin? I said Super Smash TV!"

Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve. www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/

And... In case @mcuban.bsky.social doesn't want to, I'll make it easy for him. I'm at that moment myself just doing another playthrough.

"Torment Nexus" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe the kind of negative experiences you can have with social networks, like getting dogpiled or harassed or being pushed into conflict

This is the video game equivalent of your toddler violently shitting in a potty and then proudly showing you the result

As a developer, when you crap out something like this, you're basically saying you don't care about the creative process of making video games, or the talent and wellbeing of the people who make them. Embarrassing

Good

If this isn't enough to put you off using ChatGPT ever again, then I don't know what is

Slow Horses S5 done and dusted. Felt a bit slower than the others, but picked up in the last two episodes. Still one of the best things out there right now!

The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth. www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

Decades after it originally released, and after multiple attempts across PS1 and PSP (totalling 100s of hours), I've FINALLY beaten Final Fantasy Tactics on Switch. One of my all time faves, I feel a bit empty now this is done. Simply magical.

Surprise! Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Arrives Next Year.

PS1 Fans Take Note: This Driver "Spiritual Successor" Looks Jaw-Droppingly Gorgeous.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Acquired this from legendary @superkmx.com many moons ago, and have reluctantly passed it down to the son as he's currently experiencing Tron fever. An unboxing 15 years in the making later (plus some fresh batteries) and there's a new desk buddy in the house WELCOME, PROGRAM

Bingo night was fun

The JP Spillover mechanic in FFT is neat — every living character on the battlefield gets up to 25 percent of whatever job points another allied character gets, even if they don’t have that class. So one character unlocks monk, and already knows a bunch because he saw Craig do it.

I wrote this last year, but it feels pretty relevant www.timeextension.com/features/opi...

"They Were Big Fans Of Kojima" - The Wachowskis Once Asked The Metal Gear Creator To Make A Matrix Video Game.

You know what, Nigel? Writer’s block isn’t really a thing. The real “block” is trying to survive in a capitalist system, in which creativity has been devalued & publishing taken over by managerial types who only understand productivity & see writers as “brands.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“OPENAI’S CHATGPT, GOOGLE’S Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok are pushing Russian state propaganda from sanctioned entities—including citations from Russian state media, sites tied to Russian intelligence or pro-Kremlin narratives—when asked about the war against Ukraine, according to a new report.“

This game is amazing

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.